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Monuments and memorials in the former Yugoslavia as an obstacle for facing the past

Monument-related practice in post-conflict societies and countries is an indispensable part of the analysis of the process of ”facing the past”. The policy of memorialisation makes it possible, to a certain degree, to determine up to what extent a certain society faced its own past and decided what will be part of the collective and public remembrance, and what will […]

Hide-and-seek game

The times were the way they were – there was fear, anarchy, destruction. I hid Tito in the basement. If I hadn’t done that, they would have destroyed him or melted him. One does not know what is worse. These are paraphrased sentences (except for the authentic one about the statue: ”I hid Tito”) of a person working at the […]

Dealing with the Past from the perspective of Psychotherapy

Coping with stressful events, those psychological imprints, could mean coping with one’s own future. If we consider ourselves victims of negative past experiences, we can look at our future in a depressive and agonizing way, and vice versa. However, the biggest ”natural gift” that has been given to humanity is their (our) freedom to choose between various alternatives. Hence, we […]

‘OKRUŽENJE’ (VICINITIES) ENTERS ITS SIXTH SEASON

Source: http://www.cdrsee.org Following five consecutive years of success, ‘Okruzenje’ (Vicinities), the first regional television talk show on social and political affairs, is back for its sixth season. The shooting of the first cycle has just wrapped, and plans for the second cycle are underway. The first six episodes showcase a raft of content including topics such as ‘What does […]

Victorious Bosnia students ‘will continue segregation struggle’

Source: http://www.bbc.com Flush with success, students in Bosnia have vowed to continue their struggle against ethnic segregation in schools. At the weekend, the regional government dropped plans to force students in the town of Jajce into two ethnically based schools after a year-long campaign. The Jajce students were given a hero’s welcome by pupils from other towns as they arrived […]

My visual memory

I was a child when the war happened in Kosovo. Inside my eyes of a child, I hold three crystal-clear memories. Our window overlooked a neighborhood where Serbian forces were deporting people and were breaking the main doors of apartment buildings. There are three families huddling together inside a room where the candle is hidden under the table so it […]

Partisans’ Necropolis in Bosnia’s Mostar Left to Rot

Izvor: http://www.balkaninsight.com Sven Milekic BIRN Mostar Photo by: Sven Milekić The monumental Partisans’ Cemetery in the Bosnian town of Mostar, where Yugoslav anti-fascist WWII fighters were buried, has been abandoned to decay, a victim of changing attitudes to history in the 1990s. “The Partisans’ Cemetery? Yeah, Communists come there for their annual commemoration in… I forgot the month. Tourists? Some come, not many, […]

Apply for the Summer University Srebrenica

Summer University Srebrenica is a program for undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as researchers to conduct research projects on topics related to Genocide, Transitional Justice, Post-Conflict Studies, and Human Rights. Through dialogue, research, and first-hand experience with the aftermath of Genocide and the obstacles in terms of Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding, the Summer University Srebrenica aims at understanding how such […]

SELECTIVE MEMORY

This spring marks the 18th anniversary of the NATO bombardment of the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The anniversary of air strikes was commemorated during an event in Grdelička klisura, where passenger railcars were hit, as well as during a series of requiems throughout Serbia. Serbia used this anniversary, just as it used all previous ones, to deepen and strengthen […]

Mirrors of our memories

You will not get instructions for use for a life in Bosnia and Herzegovina. There is not even a parental advisory label, although it would be useful. A first grader dear to my heart dispiritedly described his first day of school in Sarajevo Canton: ”They played a song for us, we stood up and put a hand on our heart”. […]

The Fates of Balkan and Western Democracy are Inseparable

Source: balkaninsight The crisis of democratic governance in the Balkans is obvious. But the overt turn towards authoritarianism in countries like Macedonia and Serbia is being accelerated by the still more significant crisis of democratic norms and constitutional government in the West. These two dynamics are intrinsically linked – as is any hope of resolving them. Take the recent assault […]

Academic conference “The Politics of Building Peace in the Region: Burdens of the Past and Visions for the Future”

Call for Participants and Abstracts The Faculty of Political Science of the University of Sarajevo and forumZFD are organizing a two-day academic conference titled “The Politics of Building Peace in the Region: Burdens of the Past and Visions for the Future”. The conference will be held at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Sarajevo from 19-22 October 2017. Keynote speakers […]

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